In January and February of 1925, Houdini played Zanetti at the Hippodrome Theater, New York, NY.

To celebrate, thought I would share a 100 year old review (from my personal collection) of the matinee that took place on February 9, 1925.

Related:

• Early Release – The Zanetti Mystery Plus
• The World Wide Houdini Birthday Celebration – The Zanetti Mystery

Bonus:

Below are 2 pages from the book, “The Zanetti Mystery Plus Candidates for ghostwriting the story”, that I first published in December of 2021.

The first year (Kinema Comic 1920) of  the serial, The Amazing Exploits of HOUDINI, is now available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk

Product Description:

The British Boys weekly “The Kinema Comic” ran a serial “The Amazing Exploits of HOUDINI” (“Written by Houdini Himself” – or so it says) from April 24, 1920 to November 27,1926.

In these yarns, which no one should miss, the Master of Mystery chronicles his most amazing exploits.

Surviving copies are almost impossible to come by these days.

Joe M. Notaro and Arthur Moses have been tracking down these rare issues and are making them available to you in a book series by year.

In this offering, they have compiled the 1920 (Apr – Dec) weekly serials (36 issues) of “The Amazing Exploits of HOUDINI” into a single book (with original illustrations).

Today I continue my series of posts, where I share different Master Mystery Exhibitors’ Ads from my personal collection:

• Houdini Talks About Himself and the Master Mystery
• Ruth Stonehouse Writes Plays When Only Six
• Houdini’s Tame Eagle in “The Master Mystery”
• The Triumph of Science. A Mechanical Man with a Superhuman Brain
• By Request of Hoover Houdini Chaffs Miss Marsh
• Kidnapped into Pictures
• Handcuffs I Have Met
• Houdini Breaks Own Record in “The Master Mystery”
• Why “The Master Mystery” is a Sure Record=Breaking Serial
• $25 for Houdini’s Secret
• Houdini Made the Kaiser Apologise. The Great Mystic a Victim of Hun Arrogance
• About Publicity

I compiled my ground-breaking posts on the Tatler Handcuff into a single article:

• The Search for the Holy Grail of Houdini Handcuffs – The Tatler Cuffs

Submitted it to the Linking Ring magazine and had an edited version of it published in the April 2024 issue.  Suffice it to say, I believe the cuffs are out there and will surface one day.

• “The Search for the Holy Grail of Houdini Handcuffs” in The Linking Ring

I also published my third and fourth Houdini book:

• Houdini’s Jorkins & Co (Available Now)
  • Joe Notaro presents Houdini’s Jorkins & Co (John Cox)

• Houdini Adaptations (Available Now)
  • Houdini Movie Book now available in Hardback on the 105th Anniversary of The Grim Game Premiere (Joe M. Notaro)
  • The Houdini movie book we’ve been waiting for (John Cox)
  • Houdini Adaptations by Joe M. Notaro (John Cox)
  • Coming Soon (Houdini Adaptations, The Grim Game and Terror Island Stories (Joe M. Notaro)

Besides publishing a magazine article and two books, there were many more highlights for HHCE in 2024.

I started the year off by sharing my1953 pressbook from the Tony Curtis Houdini movie:

• Houdini 1953 Pressbook – pages 1 to 4
• Houdini 1953 Pressbook – pages 5 to 8
• Houdini 1953 Pressbook – pages 9 to 12
• Houdini 1953 Pressbook – pages 13 to 16

Throughout the year, I continued to share more Houdini 1953 related movie items:

• Houdini 1953; Posters plus

• Houdini 1953: South Africa Poster (1960ish?)

• Houdini 1953: Swedish Poster (1954)

• Houdini 1953; Mexican Lobby Cards

• Houdini 1953: American Lobby Cards

• Houdini 1953; West German Lobby Cards

• Houdini 1953; More Lobby Cards

• Houdini 1953; Japanese Program (1954)

• Houdini 1953; Another Japanese Program (1954?)

• Houdini 1953; Still 11495-14

• Happy Birthday Janet Leigh

Shared some special posts that included not widely known information:

• Houdini and Godfrey, The Man of Mystery
• Houdinis Schooldays reviewed in Ye Olde Magic Mag Vol 10 Issue 2
• Happy 150th Year Anniversary of the birth of Harry Houdini!
• The Grim Game Title Card(s) and Lobby Card Set(s)
• HHCE shares notes on 1950 Screenplay by Stephen Longstreet
• Houdini Sucessfully Monkeys With the Buzz Saw
• The Grim Game plane sequence shown as part of act
• Silver Temples presents a Grim Game short with sound
• Houdini Guards Magic in Death
• Houdinis Last Written Words to the public he loved

Shared my Houdini adventures:

• Houdini Manacle comes to light

• HHCE highlights from Magic Collectors Expo 2024

• Guess where I was the last few days?

Shared a number of other items from my personal collection:

• Portrait Postcard of Lila Lee

• Unity’s capture, The Man From Beyond, trade shown in the U.K. May 10, 1926

• Original Vintage Magic Billboard News From 1922 Houdini;The Man From Beyond”?

• The Houdini Magical Fraternity Tidings Newsletters

• Two Grim Game Posters found in Paramount 1921-22 French Campaign Book

• The Grim Game Opening Program

• Houdini Play – Houdini; at the Goodspeed Opera House in 1997

• The Official Houdini Séance 1997

• The Grim Game released in the UK

• Artist Signed Mark Spears Monsters Posters

Started sharing a series of posts, where I share different Master Mystery Exhibitors Ads from my personal colleciton:

• Master Mystery Exhibitors’ Ad – Houdini Talks About Himself and the Master Mystery
• Master Mystery Exhibitors’ Ad – Ruth Stonehouse Writes Plays When Only Six
• Master Mystery Exhibitors’ Ad – Houdini’s Tame Eagle in “The Master Mystery”
• Master Mystery Exhibitors’ Ad – The Triumph of Science. A Mechanical Man with a Superhuman Brain
• Master Mystery Exhibitors’ Ad – By Request of Hoover Houdini Chaffs Miss Marsh
• Master Mystery Exhibitors’ Ad – Kidnapped into Pictures

In 2025, I plan to continue to share research, items from my collection, and publish a series of Houdini books, where the Master of Mystery chronicles his most amazing exploits.